My wife was a cheerleader in high school. Pretty much irrelevant today. The recent past - the last 20 years are much more relevant. Maybe just the last 10. As you know well, we get wiser, at least should, every year.
Steve, her autobio is too painful, but as a California native - we need you to read through 20 years of the SF Chronicle to give us the scoop.
My recollection actually is that Willie Brown (along with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) was one of the best black columnists of the early 21st century. Step orders better than Coates or the Race men at the NYT or WaPo.
Willie Brown was always worth reading. He was a really good mayor for SF. His biggest accomplishment was transforming the Dogpatch area (which was basically a slum) into a bio/medical research center anchored by UCSF med school. I don't think anyone else could have done that. He also was behind the Giants' stadium.
Sadly his acolytes, like Kamala, learned his tactics but had none of his brains. My favorite corrupt story about him was when the president of SF City College (an ex Willie Brown girlfriend) started an online school she hired a head hunter who was also an old Willie Brown girlfriend. To head the online department the head hunter hired a third ex-girlfriend of Willie Brown (he really got around!). I have to think almost all female politicians in the Bay area who are between 45 and 65 probably got their start by being his girlfriend.
I hear you, I grew up in Texas so Willie’s story always made me smile - a short, ugly, non-athletic black dude from East Texas who none the less wound up becoming the Speaker of the California Assembly & Mayor of San Francisco while dating women way out of his league - including a future Democrat nominee for Prez.
I’m going to donate/ vote/ campaign for Trump, but if Harris wins - I’ll try to enjoy from perspective of 90 year old blind Willie Brown imagining my mistress ascending to the Presidency.
Is offering this level of dedication to her as a subject a “tell” tipping us off that you think she’s gonna win? The Obama book you wrote was a lot of work and what, several hundred pages?
Published in 2009. I assume since he was more of a “sure thing” by mid-2008, that you were confident he’d at least be in the White House come Inauguration Day.
Steve Sailer's book "America's Half-Blood Prince" was NOT "published in 2009."
The book was rushed to get completed and published, which it was some weeks before election day 2008. I think it was available on the book market in early October 2008. Peter Brimelow also posted a full copy on VDare.com with Sailer's blessing. This was some weeks before the election.
The bookwas largely was a rehashing of Sailer's fast-paced running-commentary on the Obama phenomenon between about late 2007 and mid-2008. The advantage was it was put all together in one place. There was some new material, and some was adapted into something more like "book style" than "blog style," with mixed success.
The whole effort with "America's Half-Blood Prince" amounted to a racial-political-ideological biography of a man. By extension a mirror held up against the society that elevated such a man to the presidency (and, a few months later, to the Nobel Peace Prize, for just being an exotic Black good at happy-talk).
A big point of Sailer's in late 2007 and all throughout 2008 at frenetic pace, was: the media is covering up who Obama really is. That sounds quaint today, in the mid-2020s when people are a lot more cynical about these things, a time when around a sold-third of the population actively "hates the media." It was considerably less true in 2007-08. And a lot of people fell for the fluffy-fun-foreigner version of Obama vaguely pitched by the people who created and pushed him.
The "Half-Blood Prince" book was, as I'd interpret it, a warning against embracing that which Obama represented. He represented a post-White and even a more-openly anti-White political dispensation. Not that Sailer preferred in 2008 the terrible John "invade the world, invite the world" McCain. But the Obama Precedent was bad. I think that view has been vindicated well enough. "Kamala Harris" is an even-more decadent and absurd form of the Obama Precedent. And there are so many others all around. Ketanji-Brown Jackson? (Or is it Ketanki Brown-Jackson?).
VDare published the "America's Half-Blood Prince" book in 2008. I think Peter Brimelow urged Sailer to write the book, fat some point in the few weeks after Obama clinched the nomination from Hillary (by guilt-tripping the party than the Black Race deserves a win this time; come on, now).
The problem was, the rapid nature of the process made the "Half-Blood Prince" book less strong than it could have been. There was, for example, no real design cover. The printing/binding was cheaply done. The endnotes were a little chaotic, far too chock-full of URL-links. In other words, there was a lot of telltale signs that it was done "on the computer" and not thought of, as such, as a "real book." Readers are discerning creatures and pick up on all manner of subtle hints like that. It's why editors are worth their salaries.
The "Half-Blood Prince" book could have been helped by editorial input from friends and well-wishers -- and a professional editor to give major notes on organization or the like. There was no time for much of any of that. The principal players involved all agreed: It had to get published well before the election. And it was. But Obama was elected anyway (although many believe McCain "threw the election" in order to help the historicness of a Black man with weak ties to the USA, and with anti-White racial resentments, achieve the U.S. presidency). THe consequences still linger, but don't say Steve Sailer didn't warn you.
A quote from Sailer's book, adapted into a late-2000s Internet meme:
"Kamala Harris's intellectual-political lineage"; her "radical dad" was in "postcolonial economics" and a "post-Keynesian."
The Jamaican economics professor, Donald J. Harris (b.1938), was similar in age to Barack Obama Jr.'s white mother, Ann Dunham (b.1942). Probably Ann Dunham would have thought he was hip and "with it" (if maybe not exotic enough for a woman who got pregnant at 17 by a ne'er-do-well Kenyan and later jetted off and married an Indonesian).
"The Regime's Half-Blood Princess: The strange rise to the top by Kamala Harris"
Steve was pushing it even in 2008 with his Harry Potter allusion of the Obama title. In 2024 it would be too much to have the word "half-blood" in any title of anything, but it's an interesting thought.
It’s much more important than what you wrote about Obama. Obama has some talent, and there was no chance of stopping him once he defeated the Clintons.
But, Kamala coming out of nowhere at the last minute it’s very important.
She’s just the latest hood ornament on this model Save our Democracy Edsel the Politburo dealership is selling this year. Like Henry Ford said about the Model T, you can get it in any color you want, as long as it’s black.
> Should I write in detail about how the upbringing, education, and career of Kamala molded her into what she is today, like I did about Obama?
Kamala has been VP for 4 years now. What more is there to say at this point?
I will say that one comment that has been memory-holed was that in 2013, President Obama referred to then-California-AG Kamala as the best-looking AG in the US. She was 48 at the time and while I haven't looked up the pictures of the other AG's from then, I will take Obama at this word. Nevertheless Obama was forced to apologize for this observation and the press, being in his pocket, forgot the whole thing.
I had also forgotten that in Kamala's first election for AG, she did not win with a majority, defeating her closest opponent by a 46.1-45.3 margin.
"Harris has achieved an extraordinary shift in momentum"
I'd say, Craig, that it's all media creation.
Or as I might prefer to put it, Regime image-management.
I bet! Is she on OF yet? Any links with a discount code? You must be proud!
That’s why none of my daughters are sorority women.
Yes, please do.
The perfect title is coming to me … wait …. wait … YES:
America’s Half-Blood Princess
My wife was a cheerleader in high school. Pretty much irrelevant today. The recent past - the last 20 years are much more relevant. Maybe just the last 10. As you know well, we get wiser, at least should, every year.
Steve, her autobio is too painful, but as a California native - we need you to read through 20 years of the SF Chronicle to give us the scoop.
My recollection actually is that Willie Brown (along with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) was one of the best black columnists of the early 21st century. Step orders better than Coates or the Race men at the NYT or WaPo.
Willie Brown was always worth reading. He was a really good mayor for SF. His biggest accomplishment was transforming the Dogpatch area (which was basically a slum) into a bio/medical research center anchored by UCSF med school. I don't think anyone else could have done that. He also was behind the Giants' stadium.
Sadly his acolytes, like Kamala, learned his tactics but had none of his brains. My favorite corrupt story about him was when the president of SF City College (an ex Willie Brown girlfriend) started an online school she hired a head hunter who was also an old Willie Brown girlfriend. To head the online department the head hunter hired a third ex-girlfriend of Willie Brown (he really got around!). I have to think almost all female politicians in the Bay area who are between 45 and 65 probably got their start by being his girlfriend.
"He also was behind the Giants' stadium"
The San Francisco baseball stadium is a colossal improvement over Candlestick Park.
I hear you, I grew up in Texas so Willie’s story always made me smile - a short, ugly, non-athletic black dude from East Texas who none the less wound up becoming the Speaker of the California Assembly & Mayor of San Francisco while dating women way out of his league - including a future Democrat nominee for Prez.
I’m going to donate/ vote/ campaign for Trump, but if Harris wins - I’ll try to enjoy from perspective of 90 year old blind Willie Brown imagining my mistress ascending to the Presidency.
Here’s a guy doing background research on Harris. It might be a place to start. Here’s one (unflattering) piece:
https://www.public.news/p/yes-kamala-harris-is-responsible
Is offering this level of dedication to her as a subject a “tell” tipping us off that you think she’s gonna win? The Obama book you wrote was a lot of work and what, several hundred pages?
Published in 2009. I assume since he was more of a “sure thing” by mid-2008, that you were confident he’d at least be in the White House come Inauguration Day.
Steve Sailer's book "America's Half-Blood Prince" was NOT "published in 2009."
The book was rushed to get completed and published, which it was some weeks before election day 2008. I think it was available on the book market in early October 2008. Peter Brimelow also posted a full copy on VDare.com with Sailer's blessing. This was some weeks before the election.
The bookwas largely was a rehashing of Sailer's fast-paced running-commentary on the Obama phenomenon between about late 2007 and mid-2008. The advantage was it was put all together in one place. There was some new material, and some was adapted into something more like "book style" than "blog style," with mixed success.
The whole effort with "America's Half-Blood Prince" amounted to a racial-political-ideological biography of a man. By extension a mirror held up against the society that elevated such a man to the presidency (and, a few months later, to the Nobel Peace Prize, for just being an exotic Black good at happy-talk).
A big point of Sailer's in late 2007 and all throughout 2008 at frenetic pace, was: the media is covering up who Obama really is. That sounds quaint today, in the mid-2020s when people are a lot more cynical about these things, a time when around a sold-third of the population actively "hates the media." It was considerably less true in 2007-08. And a lot of people fell for the fluffy-fun-foreigner version of Obama vaguely pitched by the people who created and pushed him.
The "Half-Blood Prince" book was, as I'd interpret it, a warning against embracing that which Obama represented. He represented a post-White and even a more-openly anti-White political dispensation. Not that Sailer preferred in 2008 the terrible John "invade the world, invite the world" McCain. But the Obama Precedent was bad. I think that view has been vindicated well enough. "Kamala Harris" is an even-more decadent and absurd form of the Obama Precedent. And there are so many others all around. Ketanji-Brown Jackson? (Or is it Ketanki Brown-Jackson?).
VDare published the "America's Half-Blood Prince" book in 2008. I think Peter Brimelow urged Sailer to write the book, fat some point in the few weeks after Obama clinched the nomination from Hillary (by guilt-tripping the party than the Black Race deserves a win this time; come on, now).
The problem was, the rapid nature of the process made the "Half-Blood Prince" book less strong than it could have been. There was, for example, no real design cover. The printing/binding was cheaply done. The endnotes were a little chaotic, far too chock-full of URL-links. In other words, there was a lot of telltale signs that it was done "on the computer" and not thought of, as such, as a "real book." Readers are discerning creatures and pick up on all manner of subtle hints like that. It's why editors are worth their salaries.
The "Half-Blood Prince" book could have been helped by editorial input from friends and well-wishers -- and a professional editor to give major notes on organization or the like. There was no time for much of any of that. The principal players involved all agreed: It had to get published well before the election. And it was. But Obama was elected anyway (although many believe McCain "threw the election" in order to help the historicness of a Black man with weak ties to the USA, and with anti-White racial resentments, achieve the U.S. presidency). THe consequences still linger, but don't say Steve Sailer didn't warn you.
A quote from Sailer's book, adapted into a late-2000s Internet meme:
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/obama-says-i-found-a-solace-in-nursing-a-pervasive-sense-of-grievance-and-animosity-against-my-mothers-race.jpg
From the sorority house to the longhouse to the White House.
I think we know what you'll find. Ahem. She really is a hardcore Marxist
You mean Karl Marx? One of the greatest economists ever?
HA
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-472-kamala-harriss-intellectual?utm_campaign=email-post&r=4xcyd&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
"Kamala Harris's intellectual-political lineage"; her "radical dad" was in "postcolonial economics" and a "post-Keynesian."
The Jamaican economics professor, Donald J. Harris (b.1938), was similar in age to Barack Obama Jr.'s white mother, Ann Dunham (b.1942). Probably Ann Dunham would have thought he was hip and "with it" (if maybe not exotic enough for a woman who got pregnant at 17 by a ne'er-do-well Kenyan and later jetted off and married an Indonesian).
Not until she emerges from the DNC as the nominee if she does. Save your effort for a better use.
America's Half-Blood Princess?
Very few uses online of the phrase "D.E.I. princess."
Provocative amendment ot title:
"The Regime's Half-Blood Princess: The strange rise to the top by Kamala Harris"
Steve was pushing it even in 2008 with his Harry Potter allusion of the Obama title. In 2024 it would be too much to have the word "half-blood" in any title of anything, but it's an interesting thought.
It’s much more important than what you wrote about Obama. Obama has some talent, and there was no chance of stopping him once he defeated the Clintons.
But, Kamala coming out of nowhere at the last minute it’s very important.
She’s just the latest hood ornament on this model Save our Democracy Edsel the Politburo dealership is selling this year. Like Henry Ford said about the Model T, you can get it in any color you want, as long as it’s black.
> Should I write in detail about how the upbringing, education, and career of Kamala molded her into what she is today, like I did about Obama?
Kamala has been VP for 4 years now. What more is there to say at this point?
I will say that one comment that has been memory-holed was that in 2013, President Obama referred to then-California-AG Kamala as the best-looking AG in the US. She was 48 at the time and while I haven't looked up the pictures of the other AG's from then, I will take Obama at this word. Nevertheless Obama was forced to apologize for this observation and the press, being in his pocket, forgot the whole thing.
I had also forgotten that in Kamala's first election for AG, she did not win with a majority, defeating her closest opponent by a 46.1-45.3 margin.
Yes. Something about her parents and Kamala in her 20s would be interesting (I promise to subscribe for that)